Have been experimenting with a newly taught technique to create screen printed style images without actually having to screen print. Here are the results...

Applied the same process to the burlesque illustration I did the other day

It really reminds me of the work of an illustrator I made note of last semester, Christine Hawthorn. I saved this image at the time as I liked the style.

She also created this image

which has got me thinking maybe I could have an experiment with the drawings of shoes from last semester for my wrapping paper design and see if I can come up with another image, I did some continuous line drawings of shoes that'd probably work well with this process, hmm...shall have to scan them and see

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

A fellow illustrator came across my work on Facebook yesterday and 'liked' my page, she's recently started doing burlesque inspired illustrations herself and they're gorgeous.
Media: watercolours and ink
Take a look...

Love them.

The effects with the black ink are great, I think those markings are my favourite part of each piece.

Not happy with it, I think I've done myself ok but Alan doesn't look like Alan, the eyes are off. Pleh. And I discovered that it's well hard to paint curls, pah! But anyway, that's what I've done today.

Also got a new story from the Lancashire Evening Post to illustrate, but think I'll do that tomorrow, don't want to over do it and have dodgy sight again like I did yesterday hmm.

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Gah, I've done far too much drawing today, worried about my eyes =/ Have been drawing or on Photoshop trying to sort the book cover literally since I got up till now =/

Did a few more pages of reportage drawings, then spent a few hours trying out different things for the book cover, then sketched out a drawing to do tomorrow in ink and watercolours.

Think I'm gonna change a fair bit of the sketch actually before starting to colour, doesn't look right at all when I put it up against the photograph :o Alan's eyes are way off and my face shape is a bit off, s'weird, it doesn't look like that on the actual thing, hmmm. But my eyes feel sooo tired, I really shouldn't have decided to do that at like 10 o clock at night after drawing all day. Hope they're okay in the morning =/ Need to have more breaks when I'm on this thing or drawing for hours I think...

Here's the potential new book cover design, have tried out a couple of fonts for 'Giant Peach', still not 100% on what I'm using...